One in a series of studies on customer response to utility
regulatory pricing in early 1975, the Rhode Island demonstration
project was carried out by the Federal Energy Administration (FEA) and
the Blackstone Valley Electric Company from 1977 to 1978. The study
was originally titled the Rhode Island Time of Use Rate Experiment and
was conducted to generate and analyze data on the effects of peak-load
pricing on residential electric consumption. The experimental design
featured a seasonal... (more info)

One in a series of studies on customer response to utility
regulatory pricing in early 1975, the Rhode Island demonstration
project was carried out by the Federal Energy Administration (FEA) and
the Blackstone Valley Electric Company from 1977 to 1978. The study
was originally titled the Rhode Island Time of Use Rate Experiment and
was conducted to generate and analyze data on the effects of peak-load
pricing on residential electric consumption. The experimental design
featured a seasonally differentiated time of day rate. Three sets of
data resulted from the demonstration: questionnaire survey of the
customers, summary demographic information, and customer usage
records. All three sets are available in this data collection. Part 1
contains post-experimental customer survey responses. Part 5 contains
hourly electricity consumption data for the 28 days of the experiment,
along with identifying information that links such data to the
pertinent customer/participant's demographic data in Part 2.

(1) Neither utility load nor weather data are available
from the Rhode Island demonstration. (2) The start dates that are
reported in all three parts of the Rhode Island demonstration are
essential variables in the linkage process. These variables, used in
conjunction with the utility code, weather station identification, and
customer identification, enable the records of Parts 2 and 5 to be
matched and merged or subset. When corrections of data values were
made, an updated record was added to the file, but the originally
reported data record was retained. In these instances where there are
duplicate records for the same reporting period, the second record has
the correct data values.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1984-05-11

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB7883.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.